Tag: How-To Helps
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Write Something Every Day ~ New Book
We are excited to announce the release of our first book — Write Something Every Day: 366 Pencil Sharpeners for Students of Writing.
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Step-by-Step Guide to Homeschooling ~ Updated
Our Step-by-Step Guide has been frequently updated but the principles really haven’t changed. Get started!
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Things to Do: August 2022
Things to do in August 2022: Wrapping up summer and looking ahead to a more routine existence! Free resources.
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A Biblical Home Education by Ruth Beechick ~ Review
A highly recommended favorite from a skilled teacher and curriculum developer who greatly impacted the homeschool community.
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Things to Do: August 2021
Things to do in August: Wrapping up summer and looking ahead to a more routine existence! Free resources.
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7 Scopes & Sequences and Tips for Using Them
Here are 7 handy scopes and sequences, but first a few tips on how to use them.
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What Type of Learner Do You Have
Young learners tend to prefer one way above others, even though, like the rest of us, they learn in more than one way.
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Editable Graphic Organizer Templates ~ Free
Organize thoughts, develop the big picture. Free editable graphic organizer templates!
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Step-by-Step Guide to Homeschooling {Updated}
Our Step-by-Step Guide was the first thing we published back in 2001 when we started our original site. The guide has been frequently updated, but the principles really haven’t changed. If you are new to homeschooling, take a look. If you have been at this a while, you might find some fresh inspiration! Step 1.…
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3 Simple Summer Tips for Home Tutors
Even if you educate all year long, you may want to keep about one month free over the summer to evaluate what worked, what didn’t work, and what you might want to change about the past year. The summer is a great time to learn from our children what their interests are, to read inspiring…
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Things to Do: August
Things to Do August: Summer experiments, nature walks, and resources for the year ahead!
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Summer School for Mom: Introduction
Summer School for Mom series to help you prepare and be fired up for the next year!
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The Well-Trained Mind {Review}
The Well-Trained Mind is a parent’s guide to bringing an “academically rigorous, comprehensive education — a classical education” home. The key word here is “guide.”
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For the Children’s Sake ~ Review
For the Children’s Sake is an important read for DIY homeschool moms whose efforts are aimed at something bigger than a generic education for their children. Review.
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A Twaddle-Free Education ~ Review
Back in our early days of homeschooling, when the Internet was still getting off the ground, one of the first sources I found for information on Charlotte Mason was Deborah Taylor-Hough. Granted, every Charlotte Mason “expert” has her own bent — and granted, we learn more about Charlotte Mason by reading her in her own…
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Alpha-Phonics Workbook {Free}
Alpha-Phonics workbook free. We make reading more complicated than it needs to be.
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102 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum
Back in the day … way back … Cathy Duffy had two books on the market that covered all (or nearly all) of the curriculum options available for homeschool families at that time. Folks, there just weren’t that many — I mean, you really could fit the whole of them in two 1″ volumes! Boy,…
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22 Ways to Love, Do & Think Every Day
Looking for simplicity? Use this three-pronged approach to building a better learner.
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Natural Speller: Review & Helps
Natural Speller by Kathryn Stout is part of a series of books from Design-A-Study that help the DIY homeschoool Mom craft her own custom curriculum, focusing on going at the student’s pace, while working toward mastery. It is the only book you need to teach spelling from the time your child is reading well to…
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Drawing Made Easy {Free eBook}
Drawing Made Easy is a free eBook that provides step-by-step detail with written instructions to help make drawings better.
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Dinah Zike’s Foldables {Free}
Foldables or lapbooks are multi-dimensional graphic organizers useful for making concepts stick.
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Self-Teaching Handwriting Course {Free}
Palmer course of handwriting has the goal of producing a student who can write legibly.
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Arithmetic for Young Children {Free eBook}
Arithmetic for Young Children, aimed at children ages 3 to 7, start with hands-on experience with numbers and real-life examples.
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How to Write Clearly
Dr. Beechick’s ideas when it comes to writing are are summarized in her book, How to Write Clearly: The Meaning Approach.
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Drawing for Beginners {Free eBook}
Drawing for Beginners by Dorothy Furniss is surprisingly robust for a beginner’s drawing book. After a few pages devoted to technical hints (principles of drawing with various mediums), the book jumps right into the subject at hand, suggesting a sampling of simple things to draw, and walks the reader through the process of drawing them.…
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Bloom’s & Critical Thinking: Remembering
The Remembering or Knowledge level (Bloom’s Taxonomy) involves bringing to mind the information to be recalled.
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